Famous Friendship Poem

Everyone needs people beside them through the journey of life. It's not meant to be something to do alone. Even the richest people who are able to buy whatever they need still need people to walk along with them, or they will begin to feel lonely. No amount of money is able to buy the support and care of others. We learn from this poem by Maya Angelou how important it is to develop strong relationships.

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Alone

Maya Angelou By more Maya Angelou

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

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  • Kumari Weerasooriya by Kumari Weerasooriya
  • 5 years ago

I strongly agree with Maya Angelou. Her poem reflects a timely theme. At any age a person might suffer due to loneliness, but worse in the old age. Then one needs physical as well as psychological support. Some try to find solace in religion as relations and friends may be too busy to think about others. In this regard, old society might have been better than the present society as people enjoyed strong family bonds.

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  • W. Achee by W. Achee
  • 9 months ago

Agree. My mother was ailing for over 2 years. She had been diagnosed with cancer. Despite the fact that I informed my siblings that we were "buying" time only 1 of the 4 found time to come and visit her while she was receiving treatment. This is when she needed support. Why turn up for the funeral?

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